The Poetry of Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... upon knowledge . Hence we may fairly conclude , that the man who is wholly dis- passionate himself , and who has neither observed , nor VOL . II . 1 studied the nature of passion in others , can never The Poetry of Love.
... upon knowledge . Hence we may fairly conclude , that the man who is wholly dis- passionate himself , and who has neither observed , nor VOL . II . 1 studied the nature of passion in others , can never The Poetry of Love.
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Sarah Stickney Ellis. studied the nature of passion in others , can never be a poet ; any more than the artist who has never felt the exhilaration of joy , nor witnessed its effects , can repre- sent in painting or marble a ...
Sarah Stickney Ellis. studied the nature of passion in others , can never be a poet ; any more than the artist who has never felt the exhilaration of joy , nor witnessed its effects , can repre- sent in painting or marble a ...
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... nature . If that is a contemptible or insignificant passion under whose influence more has been dared , and done , and suffered , than under any other ; then is the human mind itself contemptible , and the name of insignificance may ...
... nature . If that is a contemptible or insignificant passion under whose influence more has been dared , and done , and suffered , than under any other ; then is the human mind itself contemptible , and the name of insignificance may ...
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... nature that once established , it remains un- shaken ? No ; the summit of earthly felicity is one of such perilous attainment , that the nearer we see any one approaching it , the more we long to protect them from the danger to come ...
... nature that once established , it remains un- shaken ? No ; the summit of earthly felicity is one of such perilous attainment , that the nearer we see any one approaching it , the more we long to protect them from the danger to come ...
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... natural de- light , which , while the enchantment lasted , seemed to raise the pleasures of earth above this ... nature , was but the ordinary light of day , liable to be obscured by mists , and hid from us by the intervention of ...
... natural de- light , which , while the enchantment lasted , seemed to raise the pleasures of earth above this ... nature , was but the ordinary light of day , liable to be obscured by mists , and hid from us by the intervention of ...
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Page 32 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 156 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 169 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 82 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Page 102 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Page 89 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 153 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Page 101 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 176 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 170 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.